The article presents the results of the analysis of the specifics of intensive group work with adults. Introducing the principles of the educational program adult education, through the development of personal competences, and on this basis - improving professional skills. Actualize the need for education programs to ensure self-knowledge and self-development of an adult. Substantiates the psychological-pedagogical technology based on intensive group training as a special form of interaction, in which the participants take an active role, and the assimilation of information takes place in the individual person living the experience of the new behavior, the integration of real interaction in a complex designed conditions. Description study includes comparative data slices carried out in groups of Russian-speaking population in the different ethno-cultural and socio-economic conditions, namely in Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kingdom of the Netherlands.